PEOPLE
Research shows that people with strong (-----) in place maintain their sobriety longer than those who do not. Recovery is difficult, especially alone.
Support
This helps people in recovery remind themselves of all the blessings they have and foster positive thinking, happiness, and wellness. Feeling joy for the things you have in life.
Gratitude
Addiction makes this work harder than normal, increases thickness in the left ventricle wall of me and creates a blockage of blood flow.
This is the perfect way to explore how being present in nature can transform how you feel as well as provide benefits of physical activity in recovery.
Hiking
These people can play an important role in helping someone they love with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders get on the road to recovery.
Family & Friends
The ability to control one's feelings and overcome one's weaknesses. Those that have it can achieve great things in various aspects of life. Those that don’t struggle along a rocky path that often leads in circles.
Discipline
Addiction changes both my structure and function. Drugs interfere with the way neurons send, receive, and process signals via neurotransmitters.
Brain
Doin this can take our mind off a well trodden path of worry, stress, anxiety and allow you to escape using your imagination. It also expands the mind and keeps the mind sharp.
Reading
These people live dangerous lives. Their actions also hurts relationships, and it additionally hurts them on a very emotional level that will be difficult for them to forget.
Drug Dealers
As the quality of mind that enables a person to face difficulty and pain. Change is not easy so this mental attribute will also be required more in recovery.
Courage
This can be weakened by the side effects of drug or alcohol use. As it grows weaker, you're left more vulnerable to infections, poor organ function, and disease.
This is a very basic yet powerful mindfulness meditation practice. The idea is simply to focus your attention on this and its natural rhythm and flow and the way it feels.
Breathing
A group where people meet to share stories and offer support.
AA Meetings
An accurate assessment of who we are, our strengths & weaknesses and abilities. This quality grounds us and opens our hearts to become rawer and more vulnerable to treatment.
Humility
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. You got to get it while you can. I'm one of those regular weird people.
Janice Joplin
An activity that connects the imagination to the body and allows the expression of feelings that you can't get express in words. This can be used to express and display emotions.
Mindful Art
Helps people who have addictions and offers support, provides advice, tools and techniques to help overcome addictive behaviors. They listen to stories, concerns or issues and provides feedback.
Being real and genuine with yourself and showing up authentically. This character in recovery from addiction promotes a sense of openness.
Honesty
This breaks down and filters out harmful substances in the blood, and manufactures proteins, enzymes, and hormones which the body uses to ward off infections. It also converts vitamins, nutrients and medicines into substances that our bodies can use.
Liver
This is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity for peace, positive escape, and clarity.
Meditation